Overview

Wyatt Kayne is an associate in Kirkland’s New York office in the GP strategic advisory and asset management M&A practice. Wyatt’s practice focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions involving public and private alternative asset management firms, including control sale transactions, GP stakes transactions, joint ventures and seeding arrangements, as well as structured equity transactions, recapitalizations and other transactions on both the “sell-side” and “buy-side.” In addition, his practice frequently includes structuring complex incentive compensation and upper-tier equity ownership arrangements in connection with succession planning and broader firm restructurings for the principals of alternative asset management firms.

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Credentials

Admissions & Qualifications

  • 2022New York

Languages

  • English
  • Spanish

Education

  • Georgetown University Law CenterJ.D.2021
    Executive Editor, Georgetown Environmental Law Review
  • Emory UniversityB.B.A., Finance2018